honeysuckle family

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noun

1. the plant family Caprifoliaceae, typified by shrubs and woody vines having opposite leaves, clusters of usually flaring, narrow, tubular flowers, and various types of fruit, and including the elder, honeysuckle, snowberry, twinflower, and viburnum.

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Example Sentences

While he advocates preserving things from other seasons to last through the cold times, winter provides a singular pantry, including highbush cranberries, a member of the honeysuckle family.

From Washington Post

The honeysuckle family, which includes a multitude of ornamental shrubs, furnishes two genera with three representatives.

From Project Gutenberg

It grows on a small tree, of the honeysuckle family, in the woods and by the streams from Canada to Georgia and west as far as Missouri.

From Project Gutenberg